He's basically fighting in there with one fully functioning leg. After that injury he had to relearn everything, new movements to compensate for his weakened leg. I don't blame him for roiding to overcome that injury. That's why he was unable to avoid those leg kicks from Israel and he almost collapsed at one point because they were mounting up.

He doesn't move very well on that left leg. If you look closely you can see that he moves as if he has a pegleg. Because that's pretty much what the situation is. He has a metal rod in there holding together the shattered bones of his leg.

Silva was good for 6 years against distinctly average opposition and the only wrestler he fought (who's an average fighter at best) was beating him for 4 1/2 rounds before losing when he had the fight won.

If Weidman was 3 years younger no one would even mention Anderson in the conversation as Weidman would have beaten him twice 3 years earlier than he did.

“We wiped [St. Pierre] down very, very hard,” Kizer said. “And even after the end of the third round, even though there was no touching of his back with Vaseline, we still wiped him down again after that round, too, just to be safe. You do the best you can to make it back to an even playing field and go from there.

"I call it like I see it and [the win] just looked dirty to me. [Silva] greased himself again. After the Vitor [Belfort] fight I saw him grease himself. I wasn't very fond of that first one. He did it again, blatantly. And then the
shorts grab. And then finally the knee, it ended up legal, but it looked like bad intentions. All that together, it just wasn't very champion-like for me. I want to see a respectful champion out there. I know emotions might get high with all the crap talking, but you gotta keep those separate and gotta fight clean."-Luke Rockhold